This study explored spiritual awakening and sublime feeling in Peter Matthiessen’s novel The Snow Leopard. It chronicled a transformative journey through the Western Himalayas of Nepal, undertaken with a team of porters and biologist George Schaller (GS). Ostensibly a scientific expedition to observe the elusive snow leopard, the journey evolves into a spiritual quest, catalyzed by the...
This article investigates the traces of Vedic and Vedantic claims of the source, origin, and processes involved in the creation of knowledge. This paper argues that perceptive experience, intuitive inference, and the testimony of the Vedas form the primary epistemology of transcendental knowledge. To examine this argument, it draws on the qualitative data pooled from an array of texts like the...